The Daily Scope: Astrology for the Week of April 1

This week rapturous Venus (the planet of Love) will rendezvous with forceful Mars (the planet of War). Challenge, chase, and conquest are their courtship, their cri de coeur “All’s fair in love and war.”

No delicate pastel-hued week for us, spring’s fancy turns to fire. The stars predict a pandemic of red-hot spring fever; the symptoms: scorching sexuality, passionate desire, a hunger for undying love. There is no cure for this fever—it needs to run its course.

The planetary provocateurs celebrate and detonate pyrotechnics when Venus and Mars are joined by the Sun, their fireworks fulminating the Fahrenheit. We revel in this, dancing with a fiery abandon and falling in love, hard and fast. Their brilliant fire incites us to dare, to dream, to love.

Misunderstood, this is the bonfire of the vainglorious; where arrogance, vanity, and selfishness smolder. But for those willing to summon the strength, take risks, and undertake a deeper knowledge of love, be prepared to witness a revelation: the golden radiance of the pure heart.